Green capitalism? : business and the environment in the twentieth century /
At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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Edición: | 1st edition. |
Colección: | Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ecology of commerce: environmental history and the challenge of building a sustainable economy / Adam Rome
- Shades of green: a business-history perspective on eco-capitalism / Hartmut Berghoff
- Role of businesses in constructing systems of environmental governance / Hugh S. Gorman
- Business leadership in the movement to regulate industrial air pollution in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America / Christine Meisner Rosen
- "Constructive and not destructive development": permanent uses of resources in the American South / William D. Bryan
- Utilities as conservationists? the paradox of electrification during the progressive era in North America / Julie Cohn
- Plastic six-pack rings: the business and politics of an environmental problem / David Kinkela
- Rise and fall of an ecostar: green technology innovation and marketing as regulatory obstruction / Leif Fredrickson
- Dilemmas of going green: environmental strategies in the Swedish mining company Boliden, 1960/2000 / Ann-Kristin Bergquist
- Private companies and the recycling of household waste in West Germany, 1965/1990 / Roman Køste
- Kill-a-watt: the greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s / Joseph A. Pratt
- Entrepreneurship, policy, and the geography of wind energy / Geoffrey Jones
- Driving change: the winding road to greener automobiles / Brian C. Black.